i used to make warhammer memes instead of getting a job edition>Previously in the Mortal Realms:>>97943752>Official AoS website:https://www.ageofsigmar.com>Downloads, Rules Errata, and FAQs:https://www.warhammer-community.com/warhammer-age-of-sigmar-downloads/>Toolshttps://runebrush.pa-sy.com/warscroll/>Anvil of Apotheosis hero creator:https://aosg.github.io/https://sigdex.io/>Thread question:What has CHADnos done since getting jobbed two editions ago?
Has Kragnos finally banged Alarielle? Some of those memes were funny to me back in 2022.
>TQI dunno, but im kinda tempted to get him just to get ready for nu-ogres return. Even if his profile looks pretty mediocre for his points. that just seems to be a staple for destruction though.
>>97961299>2022has it been so long....all those kragnos memes.... lost to time like the cum that never found alarielle's womb....
>>97961286Apparently in the Last World he hangs out with Ogors or whatever. Compelling character development.
>>97961299You just reminded me that there's multiple fanfics about that on ao3
>>97961367>>97961299works/34981324for those who nose
>>97961286According to Lexicanum he's imprisoned again, aka the writers have no idea what to fucking do with him
Does anyone have even a basic idea of what we can expect from this upcoming 5th edition, "The Scourge of Red Tides"?
>>97961339>has it been so long....Yes it hurts. It hurts too much. I remember a joke pic made that included a big hat chorf with a blunderbuss in his mouth because the kragnos silhouette was not a chorf model.I got some computer things to do so I'll post a deusarchive link of it when I can.
>>97961436>what can we expect Nothing ever happens is my motto
>rumored human factions seem to be merely lore blurbs (for now) On one hand I would have liked to see a proper take on mongols, on the other I will not interact with a setting that has Bret’s or Kislev or Ind/araby in it. Now, where are my Joseon dark elves.
>>97961439>I remember a joke pic made that included a big hat chorf with a blunderbuss in his mouth because the kragnos silhouette was not a chorf model.Here it is: https://desuarchive.org/tg/thread/78974024/#78975475
What are yall working on
>>97961582in case anyone is too lazy to click a link
>>97961588Trying to finish these two off in time to get my ass handed to me on Saturday.
>>97961588finished lazy-painting my spearheadI've got ushoran undercoated and i'm working up the nerve to actually paint a model that big for the first time in 3 or 4 years
>>97961436I don't know what this is but it looks like a rad as fuck vampire knight. What is Scourge of Red Tides?
Now that the dust has settled, why did the Helsmiths of Hashut flop?
Reply to the bait post and you’ll fuck up your minis when you try to prime them.
>>97961436Red tides makes me think it'll be (not) vampire coast, either that or a khornate fleet
>>97961286Nope, after he got tag teamed by Morathi and Kroak he's pointless
>>97961925How could Kroak do that to an innocent soul
>>97961760The hats and weapons are terrible. The rest of the designs aren't that bad but the hats and weapons really throw off the entire aesthetic.
>>97961726>>97961849The red tides must mean that vampires, especially the blood knights and their Mortach Abhorash, will be the main protagonists of the 5th edition. Maybe, who knows, we'll see.
>>97961588Ogors, my lord. Still got 4 ironguts, 4 leadbelchers, 6 mournfangs and an ironblaster to build.
>>97961849It's probably going to be khorne if anything and not a literal tide. GW has run through most of the other generic opposition factions to put in the launch boxes with stormcucks, it would make sense that they settled on khorne being next. I'm sure they've got plenty of bloodletters that they need to move off warehouse shelves.
>>97961760People liked the idea of HoH more so than the actual models themselves
>>97961588Decided to grab the first model I had directly in front of me and am gonna start working on my black coach. No plans on playing NH anytime soon but might as well get my army painted since I have a relatively simple scheme and they're fun to paint.
Have to wonder if gargants are going to be built to take down and counter cogforts when they get their battletome to ensue they don’t become oppressive.
https://youtu.be/eaeEir3Syl0?si=DO8UUd5g8KKJpAZFI was listening to this and I find it interesting that slaanesh is disgusted by consuming the souls of other worshippers of chaos. I’d always assume there was some perverse superiority the gods would feel over one another if they received sacrifices of chaos champions. Or maybe this is just a slaanesh thing
Getting back into the hobby for the first time since 2nd edWas thinking STD due to all the rad new sculpts, but I am kind of a grug retard so idk how complex the army is/if it's a fun matchup for opponents
>>97962181And speaking of the Cogfort, I'm still not convinced by the idea that "all factions will be able to use it." I mean, within the game it's not bad, but within the lore it doesn't make sense. I mean, do you see the proud and arrogant Karadron using them? Maybe for target practice, but what value would they have in using them? How would they transport them in their airships? Ha, yeah right, as if they wanted to. And the same goes for other factions like the Idonet, Sylvanet, Seraphon, and Ironjaws. Do you really think any of them would make use of a stone tower with steam-powered legs that shoots cannons and fire? I don't think so.
>>97961760kill yourself, gotenigger
>>97962270I don’t know what’s hard to understand about the tactical value of a walking castle to a bunch of factions who fight around doctrines of least casualties possible. Also I’m like 90% sure that’s so you can make a walking Dekutree and call it a cogfort
>>97962270>Karadron Ground support is needed or something until they get their own steam tank I guess. It’s honestly a harder argument to justify it gameplay wise than lore here because it’s pretty much already doing what khadrons have going for them.>sylvaneth Living city allies are borrowing it to help them.Internally though, again, gameplay wise it’s harder to justify it being here. Especially now that they’re just Zerg now. >iron jawzThis is the easiest one, they fuggin looted it. >seraphon It’s a very, very dumb excuse, but they’re allied with one another. Or it’s part of the great plan.
>>97962264> how complex the army isnot at all. literally just take all the plate armor units and smash face. very simple to play beatstick army, very straightforward buffs like a go fast buff you use when you want to go fast. your units (apart from the shirtless guys) are just chunky stat checks who clobber the opponent with raw high damage profiles and shrug off attacks with some of the best armor in the game. if you want to get slightly more technical pick up belakor who has the ability to shut down an enemy unit once per game, which can be clutch on top of him also just being a great all around monster heroif you want to keep it simple, avoid anything not wearing plate armor. the darkoath stuff is more tricky to use, but also not very good so you arent missing out much if you skip it unless you like the models (also be aware they released new marauders for the old world too which more cloesly match the chaos warrior aesthetic, so those are worth a look if the darkoath dont appeal to you aesthetically)as far as fun for opponents, as long as you arent running like 9 varanguard it'll probably be fine for casual games. the varanguard can get a little spicy since they're like the speed of knights plus the damage of chosen, they're basically each as strong as a hero model and fielding a lot of them can catch some people off guard. maybe also leave out belakor in favor of a regular demon prince instead if you want to keep it super friendly, though if you start getting your teeth kicked in a lot definitely put him back in. its probably the best army in the game for someone who isnt extremely tactical or just wants a "beat guys up" style army, because its just good old fashioned easy to use well armored muscle
>>979613392022.... when I got back into warhammer amd my spending went up way too much
>>97961760age of sigmar isn't being squatted so I have no reason to invest in armies besides the Ogors/ogres that are usable in two game systems ( and ogors exist in TLW so I keep winning) and most of my hobby capital goes to buying 40k battleforces so I can sell the ugly models I don't want and keep the good ones at a discount vs. msrp.
>>97961339
>>97962321But the RUMOOOOOOOORZ the holy gospel of Boole said AOS was getting scrapped real soon!! End timed even!
>>97961588I started converting these Victrix foot knights to gallants, but I ran out of spare bases, so they'll be on hold for a while.
>>97962380And the image...
>>97962385>>97962380victrix stuff is pretty good. i was kinda dissapointed with the perry sculpts i got, details were pretty shallow and the weapon scaling was realistic to a fault to the point where weapon hafts and blades would break with even minor handling. victrix feels like they lean slightly into heroic scale which alleviates some of those problems and they also use zbrush to sculpt their models so they can get pretty good crisp detail. plus the price is right, i think i got 60 vikings for like $40 or 50 but that was 4 or 5 years ago now, not sure if their prices have increased dramatically since then. perry was cheap too but the quality just wasnt up to what i would like.
>>97962374I heard that stormcast will need to burn chaos witches on the great pyre of Sigmar in order to extract sigmarite from them, to use it to forge new stormcast because without sigmar and grungni they can't do it normally. And each stormhost forges their own unique stormcast. And the witches being sacrificed may one day cause sigmar's heart to beat again when his people need him most.
>>97962406The biggest problem that I've had with victrix has been mold lines in mail. Have to be VERY careful in scraping that off. Besides that, the models have been a pleasure to assemble and paint. Also, I'm always left with tons of bits from each bag.
>>97961991I've never even heard of this red tide shit where does it even come from >>97962270You just gotta see them as allies. I doubt every single faction will have a lore explanation for what a cogfort is doing there, it'll just be (for example) if you play a destruction faction you have the option to use cogfort A which kruleboyz looted.>>97962385>30 fucking proxies for a 5 man unitI hope for you sake those gallants have good rulea anon
>>97962508We'll, I'm more into the modeling and painting aspect of miniatures in any case. If the rules are decent, that's a bonus.
Odd question, but do jellyfish or crocodiles "canonically" exist in aos? kroxigor don't count
>>97962557Always assume that normal animals, or animals close to them, exist in warhammer alongside the more fantastical ones.
>>97962385sorry to ask anon, but what is the blue stuff you've put on the models?
>>97962604Elastic masking tape I've cut with leatherwork punches. Can get much thinner strips than from green stuff. It's also much more flexible than plasticard.
>>97962326Damn, kragnos' earrings are huge
What are odds kragnos is expanded in the last world? I would presume they'd abandon the vague plot of survivors
LET ME CONSUME GW! I SEEK TO CONSUME!!!
>>97962816>the vague plot of survivorsAs in the idea that he's not the only drogrukh out there you mean?
>>97962326Ignoring the older ogroids, missing horns is as significant as the fact he's a centaur here
>>97962823Obviously, you mouth breathing retard.
>>97962823Yeah, he was seeking them and Gobsprakk found evidence of them but vandalised it. Kragnos was immediately trapped in a pocket realm or something afterwards. It all just reeks of ambivalence towards his character and arc, like the BL book having him speak and be entirely different. It made no sense to pick up his story in Dawnbringers save a pity tombstone forcefully wrapping it up before 4th shifts focus entirely away from everything about prior editions pretty much
>>97962826Kragnos' story is so irrelevant you should be happy I even attempted a guess, let alone that I was right about it.>>97962838Kragnos very much feels like a victim of 3rd edition's behind the scenes clusterfuck. The kroak trap is 100% gw putting him on ice while they figure out how to handle him (if at all)
>>97962838I figure it's just a set up for later that GW may or may not ever commit to. If they had any immediate plans to add more Drogrukh we would probably have seen them by now, so it's more of a "if we feel like it" story hook at this point.
>>97961286Soon
>>97962929I wonder what happened to the original soonposter.Was he still around when tomb kings came back? I hope so.
>>97962946"he" was always just a script
Have we gotten any new and fantastic rumors from Boole and the like?
>>97963210Someone must've written it>>97963221Not really anything new from the credible guys, no.There is a rumour from a new guy (so without a track record) that states gitz were getting new shit in the end of edition campaign. Refreshed spiders and another troggoth hero.But like I said, unconfirmed so far. He also posted that slaanesh would get a pity hero (slaangor specifically) and that sons of behemat were getting new gargants and a matriarch, both rumours which have been corroborated by other more reputable guys, but nothing outright confirmed.He also posted that seraphon would get a refreshed old blood, saurus guard, and endless spells. Which goes *against* the more solid rumours that they were supposed to get a coatl hero with their pity release. Maybe the saurus guard stuff is end of edition? It's hard to tell. You need a master's to decipher this shit nowadays.
>>97963221Oh, also worth mentioning that all those TLW knockoff whfb faction rumours (not!cathay etc) are apparently just lore blurbs from the core rulebook, not (necessarily) full-blown new factions or anything for now at least
If they redo gits I hope they look nothing like the 40k guys, at least facewise. Limit that shit to gitmob.
>>97963505It does look grim. I was hoping for the 40k grits to look like the pic that’s right next to it where they have big healthy noses not spikey shit.
>>97961286Tbh in a funny way kragnos is the poster boy for the death of aos setting. He was the turning point where gw and the writers stopped giving a fuck about the setting and the game in general.
>>97963536Git design peaked with these guys>>97963554Isn't it kind of obvious that they were planning different shit for kragnos but 3e tow divorce shenanigans forced them to scramble and come up with something new out of the blue
>>97963505Looks pretty close to the 40k art. 40k grots are a lot meaner and less silly than fantasy/aos grots. But on the inverse the orks are a lot more silly and goofy and fantasy/aos orc or orruks
>>97963607Grinkraks looncourt is also excellent, in my opinion I prefer it to zabrags, though both are great
>>97963616NTA but I like Zarbag's as a just baseline for gitz.
>>97963616I think the squig rider from grinkrak is great, and I love the squig catapult thing, but the rest of the warband I'm weirdly not too fond of. I don't like the way the armour looks, I think the coal guy from zarbag's did it better.
>>97962301Thanks for the rundown, darkoath/tow marauders have some cool models but would def be more for display down the line looking at the scrolls
>>97963505Too late, look at underworlds
>>97962557
>>97964010Oh shit true thanks anonThis modek is fucking great by the way, so is the standard version
>>97961339Man remember when we were convinced that we were going to get a fimir army in 3rd edition.inb4 some retard goes "hurr durr no-one thought that except two people" ignoring that 90% of comments back then were saying how it's got to be fimir
>>97964069>we were convinced that we were going to get a fimir army in 3rd editionno, "we" weren't
>>97964069>fimir vs conquistador CoS trailerGood times
>>97964069It was like one guy who thought it was Fimir, because leakers had already spoiled that it was going to be Orcs.
>>97963669>>97963607i raise you the two gobbos in a squigcoat
>>97964200There was tons of fimirposting right up until the reveal.There were even more people making fun of fimirtards, but still.
>>97964293It seems like you are very invested in this delusion.
>>97964023wait is this a hero
>>97964347You can dive into the archives and see for yourself anon. Just set the date for april-may 2021 and search for fimir.>>97964380She's from underworlds, and is basically an alternate tidecaster sculpt (picrel is standard)
>>97964416Shit the underworlds one looks way better.
>>97964416>You can dive into the archives and see for yourself anon. Just set the date for april-may 2021 and search for fimir.I don't need to, I was there, I remember, you were mocked
>>97964433...so you agree that there were plenty of people thinking it was fimir? Good, glad we cleared that up.
>>97964538The reason why you read that post and reach this conclusion is the same reason why you were mocked then and get called delusional now still.How many times do you feature on the bingo card again?
Why is it that Deepkin, fyreslayers, and KO don't get as much stuff as the other factions?
>>97964069People here love revisionism. I remember being mocked for saying that I suspected chorfs to be coming. Then, they were announced, and people were like "What? We all knew they were coming. No one said they weren't coming." as if they weren't calling me deluded for months.
>>97962557Yes but they have retarded copy right friendly names like "scaled snaplog" and "Oozified Sting-Dangler'
>>97964595because they're early factions that did not have any roadmap for future releases already decided at the time of launchand because they don't sell particularly well, due to not having many releases and models, which is why gw decided to invest more heavily in the new factions after them>but why not bring them up to speed then?because gw cannot remove the doubt that they sell badly due to the look they have, over their small range, so they cannot throw more support at them yet
>>97964654so basically uh, just wait until they have the one guy working on the faction come up with a range extension and don't touch it outside of pity heroes every now and again.
>>97964585Anon, you need to work on your comprehensive reading. I'm not a fimirfag, I'm just pointing out that those retards were present and it wasn't just "1 guy"I'm on the bingo once which I know because I made the fucking thing. It needs an update though
>>97964200It was leaked a few days before that it was going to be orcs (but even that leaker said they were 'fimir inspired' which they weren't), so much seemed to add up to it being fimir including when a Warcom intern seemingly teased it being them on FB. >>97964597Oh yeah same with Skaven being the big bads of 4th edition, I distinctly remember people saying "No they're obviously getting squatted" in the months leading up to it. It's weird people feel the need to defend their izzat even on this anon messaging board.
>>97964595Deepkin are a little out there and their narrative alienates then from the setting. They shouldn't be in order. Fyreslayers are just burdened by 1e homogeneity. They're carried by two infantry kit that look identical. KO have 40k gameplay.
>>97964682>I'm not a fimirfag>>>97964069>Man remember when WE were convinced>I'm on the bingonot surprised in the slightest
>Finally settle on the colours I want for Celestial Vindicators>Reading up on lore>Start feeling for Hallowed Knights insteadFuck it I'm just going to colour each unit whatever Stormhost I feel like I'm tired of bouncing between what schemes I want every week, people can behold my rainbow of stormcast minis and cry all they want. Fuck army themes.
>>97964849I'm the bloke who posted the origin fimir thing and not >>97964682
>>97964849>everyone who responds to me is the same person
>>97964835There should be elves in every grand alliance. Morathi should be chaos, Idoneth should be death, and Sylvaneth should be destruction
>>97964963I'm still theorizing if beastmen come back they might be a united destruction faction underneath Katakros. Honestly I'd like that more considering their whole shtick has always been the "outcasts" or chaos who just want to destroy everything. A destruction faction who actually wants to just wreck shit.
>>97964963That would've been a really cool twist in Soul Wars if when Sigmar brought Alarielle back in her war aspect she ended up going full savage wild woman as destruction.
>>97964963Retcon kurnothi into followers of kraggy
>>97964994I only hope they're still the goatmen I love just in HD and not some chaos spawn themed shit. I mean I know they were mutants and all but I like my demonic satyrs to be just that.
Speaking of the bingo actually, I think it's time for an update. This one was from early october last year. Any suggestions? Honestly a ton of shit was just thrown on there to complete the grid, so a fair bit should probably be removed too.
>>97964994The next destruction army should be a Fimir battletome written by John Norman
>>97965060I understand I'm kind of playing into the bingo but how is 4e 1e nostalgiabait? I've never seen that opinion posted anywhere and I'm struggling to come up with how someone could think it is. Is it literally just the Stormcast spearhead being similar to the 1e Stormcast starter?
>>97965074I mean Fimir and Beastmen or other assorted odities from Ghur would make a fun army. I have a soft spot for those motley bunches of weirdos smushed together into a faction. GW doesn't but, you know.... if they did
>>97965060https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4OYRn7fqY-0
>>97965094I remember a while ago posting that it could be fun to have a "Scorned of Chaos" army with the old beasts of chaos, Dragon Ogres, Fimir, and maybe even some of the squatted warcry stuff. With the fluff being old chaos people who have been cast to one side by the Ruinous powers and worship Gorkamorka as a kind of Malacath-like god of outcasts.
>>97962321It's so weird since the setting is being canned but the rules aren't changing.Like, imagine AoS 1st edition but you were still playing with 8th edition fantasy rules.
>>97965141That's because the setting is not being canned, just modified at best, shitstirrer-kun
>>97965169>the realms implode, this is not consequential Are you gonna start crying FUD like crypto buyers now?
>>97965060monopose Blightkings didn't age well considering every Blightking is monopose now
>>97965224Nah they were angry at some guy because he did a pretty lame paintjob and made all his blight kings look the same. (I'm assuming the way they tell you to build them on the cover/manual) and like 2 anons had mental breakdowns over this.
>>97965084The wave 1 refresh and Tornus being a prominent part of 1e black library? I guess Pestigors feels very 1e too.
>>97965060make a completely empty new one and lets fill it from here on out
>>97965084There's one schizo here who thinks pestigors are nostalgia bait because they appeared in 1st edition once
>>97964595Ko honestly got quite a bit.
>>97965311Did they? Closest I can think to pestigors being in AoS was that you could take that Nurgle battalion for beastmen back in 2nd.
>>97965312I think the most interesting indicator with KO is that they've gotten a lot of battleforces over the years, even with no new models. Shows that GW considers them a reliable seller. But yeah, the real answer is just that these early 1E armies were made with zero plans for any followup, so they had to wait for GW to actually come back around to them.
If 40k ever make Gits a thing i will play their game but damn, new gits look closer to gitmob than to moonbros.
>>97965224Lel true>>97965247It was pretty funny
>>97965688I'm just glad I'm not relevant enough to have any shit on a bingo card. Worst thing I do is post my Ush a lot because I like him :)
>>97965605>But yeah, the real answer is just that these early 1E armies were made with zero plans for any followup, so they had to wait for GW to actually come back around to them.Yeah it makes more sense when you look at it within the microfaction/soup mentality of 1st edition. I've heard it said none of them were really ever planned to be much more than what they were at the start, but idk about that.
>>97965608on one hand, they're to be part of the ork faction still so they won't be turned into a faction of their ownon the other, I don't think the grot unit is getting an obligatory runtherd attached now and one of the grots has a star as amulet, so a wave of releases for the ork codex that focuses on grot units might happen eventually
>>97965095I wish they made the horse heads abit bigger, to match heroic scale, as they look really off even if not inaccurate.
>>97965826I think that might be due to the unusually "high" barding
>>97961339>those bets abaut if it was a Beast of Chaos character or a destruction oneRemeber that one avatarfag who decided to eat his underwear if it turned out it wasn't a Beast of Chaos unit?
>>97966056Doesn't edible underwear exist?
>>97962018Khorne was the first one though. Pretty big waste to go back to that when there's plenty of other factions. Hell make Order fight itself.
>>97961286started building the second set of stormvermin from the christmas boxwas worried the arms would be too keyed into specific bodies but they all work universally so far, very nice surprise
>>97965943I mean the barding does have that effect too, but I feel it's both.
Verdigris heraldry from the new CoS tomeI think one of the cogforts has a hippocampus decal so we might see them show up in a new transfer sheet, maybe the cogfort gets an extra one idk.
>>97966229I'm retarded it's from the core bookBut yeah still points to new cogfort transfers
>>97966246It's all but confirmed, that name is clearly a transfer
>>97961286Stop appropriating my culture if you don’t know how to use it Chadnos is not a jobber
>>97966359>Chadnos is not a jobber
>>97966365Nice ass.
>>97966381those are horns, not ears
Fimir deniers when John Norman gets announced as the new lead writer of AoS lore
>>97966359>time period known literally as the era of the beast>still manages to jobHe's arguably warhammer's biggest jobber. His only competitors are orion, the avatar of khaine and pre-8th abaddon.
>>97966365>Roams Ghur in ancient times with his boys and fucks up so much stuff he becomes a god without even trying>Sleeps for a bit>Wakes up and fucks Alarielle, unites the various destruction races without even trying>Beats Kroak and Morathi at the same time because they were too scared to actually fight him and had to resort to cheatingIt could be worse
>>97966469Leaving out a few details there
>>97966469>wakes up all sweaty from that daydreaming
>>97966056One of /aosg/ moments of all time>>97966089Yes, but he ate real one
>>97966521Didn't he immediately get trapped again as well just in Ghyran
>>97963331There are a lot of oddly git shaped rumor engines unsolved as of late. After Adepticon most of the unsolved RE seem to be AOS related
>>97966612Oddly Seraphon leaning as well, too clean and orderly to be just a squig
>>97966602>>97966521>>97966469>>97966444>>97966359>"captured" again>in ghyran>by alarielle>only let out during a specific point in the lunar cycleShe wanted her boytoy back and only lets him out when she's ovulatingCHADnos can't stop winning
>>97966521Remember when the big 'Nos was the biggest threat in the world, and now he's just retardedly running amock in Ghur?
>>97966056>>97966579Absolutely legendary threadGotta hand it to him, he actually fucking did ithttps://archive.4plebs.org/tg/thread/78992033/#78993370https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M6JgxZwnR5I
>slower than /wfg/ month after AdepticonAoS interest is really dependent on releases eh? Lords of War were right, if you don't constantly stoke interest AoS has no legs.
>>97966673alt tab back to TWW faggot, the AI probably finished its turn already
>>97966667>polishSome jokes write themselves
>>97966673I'm going to draw you dying of AIDS
>>97966673/wfg/ isn't much better, it's mostly Shitposting after taking a look at the thread
>>97966673Here you go, this is what you look like to us
>>97966635Looks too clean go be seraphon imo, and to me it looks like it has quite pronounced canines. Weird one for sure.>>97966661Honestly even when kragnos was at his "peak" he was a bit of a meme character. Getting sealed away only cemented his jobber status.
So what your hopes for the new Dwarf faction rumoured to be coming out?
>>97966833We have three dwarf factions, and another faction that has dwarves. Why the fuck would we need one?
>>97966612>After Adepticon most of the unsolved RE seem to be AOS relatedTo be fair there's only like 7 left and two of those are from the rumour damage control coloured one.>>97966833Honestly I'm more interested in the FS stuff than the khazalids. The one from the abovementioned rumour engine looked pretty cool, the warcry warband solves a lot of my issues with the first wave of fyreslayers.>>97966843The amount of dwarf factions will stay at 3>and another faction that has dwarvesWell, not for long
>>97966843Fyreslayers are being absorbed into Khazalid holds and are losing a bunch of their kits
>>97966948>a bunchIsn't it basically just Berzerkers and like two heroes?Though tbf that's like a third of their kits, poor manlets
I can't stand playing Old World or Fantasy but I love Vampire Counts and Tomb Kings. I found someone made a pretty in depth compendium for both factions except they are from 2nd and 3rd edition. How different are the core riles from each edition and how hard would it to bring these over to 4th?
>>97966988You'll have to do some tinkering, won't be a seamless traditionThat being said why not just ...play vampire counts as soulblight gravelords and tomb kings as, idk, obr is probably the closest.
>>97966956Think of both of the Fyrelayer players, losing their fourth favorite kits.
>>97967016To be fair it's gotta suck losing berzerkers if you play fyreslayers.Though I have to assume they'll probably have an easy proxy unit in the new khazalid holds, if not an outright replacement
>>97967010Because thats gay, I started as a secondary with total warhammer and when I play VC or TK i want to feel like i am playing them, not just an existing army with a coat of paint
>>97967052Then you're fucked out of luck. For what it's worth a lot of the actual sculpts are dated and don't look anywhere near as good as in the game
>>97967052For TK I kinda get it but soulblight are literally just vampire counts with a stupid copyright name. I guess they lost ghouls and ghosts since those became their own armies, but that's like 5 units combined.
>>97967052>started as a secondaryyeah we can tell
>>97967040I imagine there's going to be a basic "dwarf warrior" type unit that'll replace the Vulkites as basic bitch infantry. Can't imagine there's a problem with just running Vulkites as a proxy for that if you want to.
>>97964597I was one of the guys who laughed at you for wanting chorfs, nothing personal I just hate babylon and it's aesthetics.
>>97967241>I just hate babylonASSyrians, please leave
>>97962557Jellyfish>Yes there some Idoneth have themCorcodiles>Yes-ish they're some weird name ones like Rokodiles and Crocosuchian gatorsthe Ogor Warhulk concept was actual first invented to hunt crocodiles in Greywater before they realized they just use it against chaos
>>97966808Yeah I think the lack of scales feels a little weird, not sure what else to stick a claim about it on though>>97966861The coloured ones are just Nu-fyreslayers and Ogors we already have had multiple reliable sources claim these were gonna happenThere's only like an oddly shapen AL looking spear but thats prolly just HH, if not than I have no bets on anyone except maybe someone in AOS or Fantasy
My understanding is that the Spider Grots will disappear as a faction and be absorbed by the Moon Clans.
>>97967344lmao never gonna happen, you soupfags are so far in your delusions it's unreal
>>97966660That's crazy anon, that'd result in some weird elf-centaurs with red hair and we all know those don't exist
>>97966469Lol, imagine being this delusional
Age of Sigmar
>>97967689
I have some questions about the rules>If your unit is not in combat: Each model in your unit can move 3" in any direction. That move can pass through and end within the combat ranges of any enemy units.Are there instances where a unit is NOT in combat and can make a pile in move? Fight says >Declare: Pick a friendly unit that is in combat or that charged this turn to use this ability. That unit can make a pile-in move (see 15.3). Then, if that unit is in combat, you must pick one or more enemy units as the target(s) of that unit’s attacks (see 16.0).How can a friendly unit have charged but not be in combat? How can it make a pile in move but not be in combat? It’s odd to me that they added these qualifiers and conditions when the contrary never seemed possible to me. I thought you had to end your charge in an enemy’s combat range or else it whiffs and fails. Why would they add the condition “or charged this turn”? If it charged shouldn’t it already be combat? Don’t pile in moves have to end in combat anyway as well?
Does AoS have an option for pure demons or is it dying here too?
>>97968155It's rare, but it's usually there to cover your opponent pulling models to try removing Combats from your activations. You can also, with some armies, be that guy and argue it when you kill them with mortals on the Charge Phase - like Ogors or some Cavalry. >hit enemy, kill models>opponent tries to remove models to deny combat with a different unit>said unit can Pile-In as it A) charged, and B) was in combatAs for Pile-In into nothing, I'm not sure. My understanding of it is shaky at best as it's come up twice at most over my year of 20+ games.
>>97968158Mono demons only, slaves to darkness has it as a mixed option but its limiting as hell with belakor as your mandatory pick.
>>97968177Would the rules be in the dedicated god’s book or in the Slaves to Darkness book?
>>97968188For the mixed demon army with belakor? It’s going to be in the slaves to darkness battletome. But when I mean it’s hella limiting, I fucking mean it’s like you only get some options. Iirc you can only pick blood letters, screamers, flamers blood letters on jugs, nurglings, beast of nurgle, and That one titty slaanesh demon. Mono demon however they’re all in their own respective books.
>>97968202Nahone, thank you for the info
>sylvaneth got a stealth soggy scroll>it fucking gives them the ability to get their teleports back no matter the formationSomeone really fucking loves this army rules wise because holy shit they keep sucking them off.
>>97968237Wrong image.
I read the core rules and I think the answer I'm looking for is "no" but I will confirm with you guys anyway.SoGhy rules can be used selectively for each part of the game right? I can take a non-SoGhy artefact of power but play with SoGhy prayers right? Same goes for warscrolls, but I can't take different versions of the same unit?>SoGhy freeguild cavaliers cannot be in the same army as non SoGhy cavaliers
>>97968533*the answer I'm looking for is "yes"
>>97968533yes, the scourge enhancements are all just additional options.
>>97968533You either play with SoG things (ie the seasonal rules, items, artifacts, warscrolls, battle tactics, and plans) which does not exclude the stuff already present, or you don't use the SoG items at all.
>>97967344>>97967366>lmao never gonna happen, you soupfags are so far in your delusions it's unreal
>>97966365How are you a jobber if you don’t put anyone over and beat all your ones in fair matches?
>>97968882by doing nothing and being tricked left and right only to be ultimately put back in the cuck cage
>>97966635Squig could just be 40korkz. They get them for some reason
>>97968158>>97968177Mono demons haven't been a thing since 2e. Legion of the 1st Prince is Belakor Mortals + select demon units mixed from the 4, but he hasn't been able to take all demons for years
>>97968921Was there an all demon army in 1st edition? Or do you mean just a GA chaos army where you take only demons.I don't really remember
>>97968964There wasn't one. Just GA Chaos. 2e added Legion
>>97968981Yeah that's kind of what I assumed
>>97967366The fuck are you bringing soup into it for? They're already in the same army.
>>97968916>They get them for some reasonmaybe, but the 40k squigs got nothin on the aos ones
Would you like the Carnosaur model to be updated to look more like a theropod, like the one in Total War?
>>97969345If the SquigSaurs and the Squighog were to be introduced into AoS, what background would be given for the appearance of these creatures?
>>97969356even that one doesnt look much like a therapod with its crazy misshapen jaws and teeth, but at least it doesnt look like a cat snake like the current one.still i think you'd be better off just buying a high quality actual dinosaur figure and converting it. they arent super expensive, usually $15-$20 and they look good and most of them are in or near 28mm scaleartist in pic is simon elsen on IG
>>97969374squiggosaurs would have to be the mounts of bonesplitters, as they fit the prehistoric themesquighogs are interchangeable with actual hogs, so they fit as an alternative wherever those fit fluff>they've always been around
>>97969356No, the kit is good and is attached to the troglodon Rather than an update of the normal carnosaur I will argue it would be far better for the lizardmen range to have an additional kit for an additional big monster, this one can be made to be bigger to stand up to the size creep of monsters, can be made to have a different design and pose as to not make a monster-focused list show the fyreslayer-syndrome, and it can have a special character on top because kroak alone isn't much of a character, and lord gar could be fun
>>97969390>cat snake like the current onethat might have been very much intentional
>>97969356Not really, the current one is great tbdesu
>>97969374>squigosaurApex predator of the underground ecosystems>squighogLiterally just fatter squigs, probably hang around ironjawzI do like the squigosaur, gotta make a manglerboss proxy out of it someday
>>97969356Ew, that's awful.If they want to update it they shoudl just go back to the old metal model
>>97969374We alredy have truffle sniffing squigs, jsut do that with the hogs
>>97969455Yeah the carnosaur is a pretty timeless kit. I can't imagine it being improved much.Bastiladons and stegadons less so, but they're also still more than fine.
>>97969417>an additional big monsterThis, give me the other carno*aur.
>>97969417>>97969499If seraphon get another monster I feel like it won't be a therapod. Between the carno and the troglodon (and the dread saurian) I feel like we're good on "big therapods".The most popular dinosaur archetypes we're missing are sauropods (tricky because of size) and stegosaurs. Stegadon took the name, but not the design. Although warmaster had a "crested stegadon" that was more like a stegosaur.Speaking of the dread saurian though, do they ever do MTO's of discontinued forgeworld shit?
>>97969557get a recast or one of the superior third party alternatives
>>97969557>sauropods and stegosaursThose wouldn't be special characters and gw loves special characters.
Now that I think about it, the Carnosaur from the concept art and the one in the Total War: Warhammer 2 trailer looks more like the miniature model than the one that appears in the game. Why was there a change?
>painted my gsg nearly 8 years ago>have improved as a painter since then, want to strip and start them over>painting 120 grots and 80 squigs again may damn well kill meI'm torn. To strip or not to strip
>>97969578They can put a fat frog on either one of those and call it a day
>>97969594lizardmen are one of the factions that saw drastic design changes in total war compared to the models, lord mazdamundi was also the first lord that whose design wasn't based on previous models or artworksI believe they recognised the models weren't particularly good at the time compare to some of the artworks and were given the greenlight for changing them so they would fit expectations better, and didn't stop at just the saurus and cold ones, but changed the kroxigors too (presumably because otherwise their silhouette was too similar to the saurians), and I'd assume the carnosaur because people want the trex
>>979694992nd-ing
>>97969625If the new agradons, raptadons, and spawn of chotek are any indication, they are moving more towards literal dinosaurs rather than away from them. The new creatures are all very realistic in their Dino anatomy barring a few creative embellishments like flame glands
>>97969652I mean, the bastiladon is kind of out there but for example the stegadon isn't too crazy unrealistic either, is it?
>>97969652I don't agree, raptadons are pretty extravagant and even the new salamander spits in the face of realistic dimetrodons by giving it gills.They're still in the same old territory of doing a dinosaur but taking heavy handed creative liberties.
>>97969606Do not strip. Preserve your journey. I regret stripping my first minis ever all the time.
>>97969912I feel like if it's 200 minis we're talking about you can afford to strip a bit
>>97969606Just buy new ones, why the fuck woul you destroy your own stuff?
>>97969606Buy more instead and sell the old ones later if you care to after a few rounds of GW price hikes?
>>97970126Stripping doesn't damage them save the risk of wreckless brushing with spindly bits, though a vibrating cleaner wouldn't even need that
When are we getting T-rexes for seraphon?
>>97970167When you buy conquest
>>97970167When soulblight gets some fat fucks
>>97970130I don't men destroying the plastic GW made, i'm talking about hours of your effort and creative process
>>97969606>>97969912I too get the urge to strip my space marines form 4 years ago but I've improved so much since then that it feels wrong. >>97969455>>97969492>>97969420>>97969356I don't own any lizardmen but I like that the carnosaur isn't really 1-1 with any IRL dinosaur. It would kind of lazy and odd if all the lizardmen were just exact downscaled copies of real dinosaurs.Being humanoids with dinosaur elements, even the war beasts, is more interesting. >>97969390I don't blame people for doing this and it's charming in its own way but I think you need to match the paint job or they will look a bit uncanny next to GW sculpts.
I like that WHFB has chaos versions of non-human races. It doesn't make sense that we rarely see chaos corrupted or mutated ogres, trolls, giants, and beasts in AoS. How do you guys feel about a chaos troll or ogre kit? Would it be too hard and impractical to design and produce? Would it have to be a single Chaos undivided Troll or Ogre kit that can be run in cult legions as well?I just wish we saw more overlap with the damned mortal followers between every chaos army. Am I crazy?
>>97970342most races have good excuses as to why they are rare as chaos versions, and that's important because bogging down the selection of kits with spiky versions of every other thing is a wasteyou have the ogroids profile you can use to proxy your chaos trolls and chaos ogres if you really want them, and plenty of third party or old models or modern moderns to chaosify
>>97970342I'd love some chaos ogres or troggoths creatures in general seem to be siloed off a lot more in aos. Though on the other hand we recently got order ogres and gargants which is pretty cool. The heliomorph is also basically an order chimera.Related to this but it's really stupid that kb doesn't get fellwater troggoths, or gsg the sloggoth. At least in thrugg's AoR or something.
>>97966579>>97966667Well. I guess that's nice you people still remember me. I still have photos of that fatefull day.
>>97970431(holy shit it's been 5 years already)
>>97970431>>97970441Have you just been posting here anonymously all this time or what
Can morbhegs be feasibly built without a rider (as in requiring a non-ridiculous amount of filing or filling)? I would like to use one for a conversion.
>>97970342I'm a fan of chaos ogres as a concept but I see no reason for them to get an actual kit. You can pretty easily make them yourself with stuff like marauder/gor shields as gutplates and spare dragon ogre heads for champions. Chaos troggs would be a fun kit if they included plenty of weird mutations (and I'd buy one to use for my Underworld Blood Bowl team!).
>>97970953Yes, there would be very little work if any. The riders are completely separate pieces and there is no saddle or barding
>>97970995Thanks.
Dead general for a dead game
>>97970548I've been here on and off. Mostly looking and asking. But yea I did that anonymously. One day I just...got bored and stopped my avatarfagging. I actually got into University and will be doing a Bachelor degree next semester. I bassicaly went outside. I still collect and Paint AOS. (Lizardmen Army is growing). But I got into Kitbashing too. (Mostly thx to 40kg collages as they give a good excuse to do something). So yea.>>97966694Hey At least I wasn't like Decalfag
>>97970342Here are your chaos troggoths broThe worst part is that we actually had some fun crossover units with the kossargi guard as undead ogres, but they fucked removed them the bastards
>>97971093Just call them trolls, don’t use cringe corpospeak.
>>97971100but they're demons, not trolls
>tfw in this general since before broken realms and i have no idea who these fags are>>97971100they arent even trolls
>>97971107You know what I mean. You wrote ogres, you can write trolls. Don’t give into the corposlop naming
>>97971100I think troggoth is pretty fun. It along with gargant are the only aos-isms I use (well, and seraphon I guess)
>>97971119Gargant and seraphon are actual words.
>>97971100Picking and choosing which names you like is better than going all or nothing like a lemming. Neither James Workshop nor some knucklehead on 4chan is going to dictate how I speak.
>>97971127what? no they're not.>>97971132truly the enlightened position
>>97971093They didn't deserve it bros...
>>97971470yes, they did, who the fuck makes zombie ogres WITHOUT sculpting them with a broken jaw or open guts? only retards, that's who
>>97971501Their jaws are kind of fucked up
>>97971565hardly worse than an average brit
>>97971100>the absolute state of towdlers
>>97969345Maybe I should convert those 40k squig riders into gore gruntaz…
>>97971786They have mechanical prosthetics and wheels on them.
>>97971786Since they come in 4's, I've been toying with the idea of putting teo each on a 120mm oval and running them as the beeg peeg RoR for my gitz. But I think ultimately getting rid of all the sci fi shit would be more trouble than it's worth
>>97971816>>97971825Yall are prolly right. I’ll save the thought for when I feel exceptionally ambitious with sculpting
>>97971816They're klankasquigs from chamon :^)
>>97971903Vince please.
>>97966667holy twink
>>97971916Bless his heart
>>97971867you could look for stl and alternatives that don't have prosthetics
Ya know it's a long shot, any of you nerds have leftover bits from an Eidolon with the storm guy? I wound up with a 2nd one of the wizard guy and I either wanna just convert him to be the other one or sell him off.
Why are there no negroes in Cathay, but cities of shitmar is full of negroes???? Truly baffliing...
>>97972031Well, what happened to your storm bits from the first guy?
>>97972172because they can't pronounce the R
>>97972174Got the first guy from a trade :( got the 2nd guy through a REALLY REALLY good deal. So now I'm trying to make some lemonade with the lemons but I need sugar!
>>97972183oh yeah that's trickyare you looking for the storm guy bits because you like the look or just because you want to run two different eidolons? if it's the latter I think you can get away with some minor conversions honestly, most opponents wouldn't even know which version is which anyway
>>97964010How do the fish fly and breath outside the water? Is there a lore reason?
>>97972228Both desu, I both like the look of storm guy but running 2 would be pretty neato.
>>97961286Yeah
>>97972247The elves have basically got a magical aura around them called "aethersea" which is effectively like water for fish but air for the elves, it's how the blind guys can actually operate since they sense shifts in the "water" around them and can dodge out of the way
>>97972247they summon the ether
how viable is a stormvermin heavy skaven list? They're easily my favorite models from that army
>>97971816They looted it from CoS
>>97972412It’s pretty bad last I checked.
>>97972412Stormvermin kind of suck unfortunately. You can use them, but they're not great. Bit of a shame.
>>97972528man, thats pretty cool. getting kain and abel vibes from this
>>97972412Depends on what you mean, I've heard as an individual unit they're not particularly good. But much like everything in AOS, if you make a skew list of like ALL stormvermin it'll probably be busted.
>>97972528I like the khornedog and gryph hound duking it out
I got talked into starting a DoK army, and I have a few questions.>Does anyone have any interesting ideas for colour schemes?>What's the consensus on the elf/monster split when building a list?>Is Mommy Morathi still functionally unkillable for the first couple of turns?
>>97972748>>Is Mommy Morathi still functionally unkillable for the first couple of turns?No that's explicitly gone, she can die turn 1 but can be resurrected later if you get enough good boy points. Which i'm fine with, if I can bash her head in using sheer force I'm fine with that.
anybody have the instructions for the new night/gutter runners? Got the skaven spearhead secondhand and didn't include any of the booklet
My boys, if Game Workshop, in the remote and almost improbable event, decided to bring back the Savage Orks with that new yabba-dabba-doo aesthetic, what backstory would they give them to justify their return, and what units would you like them to have?
>>97972247They hold their breath
>>97968907This is not what a jobber is
>>97973415>how would they come back Just have gork and mork work through a percentage of iron jaws and have em adapt and learn the ways of the old bone splitters while adjusting to the new threats that face the mortal realms. >what to want to see Dedicated musical units that buff another unit as long as it’s visible and a certain distance from it, while also being incentivized to be on a point. Some kind of dedicated monster hunting unit that’s dedicated to taking down monstrous cavalry, preferably as a dual kit that can also take down monsters.That’s all I can really think of atm, I’d say they should have animal handlers but that’d overlap with Kruelboyz a bit maybe.
>>97972748>Does anyone have any interesting ideas for colour schemes?Go wild. I like bright colours personally>What's the consensus on the elf/monster split when building a list?Seems like it has less need to be all sneks or all elves, you can mix a bit now>Is Mommy Morathi still functionally unkillable for the first couple of turns?Nope, they removed it but they can revive as long as one of them is aliveAlso your model? Nice bum
How customizable are the new rotswords? Is it mono pose or do they have some options?
>>97973809Weapons are interchangeable between bodies iirc, nothing too much to write home about it but it’s something.
Does anyone have a pdf of the 3rd edition battletome for the Idoneth Deepkin?
>>97972445Wait shit, that might make it work. I forget there’s working steampunk stuff
>>97973951Try this link.files<dot>catbox<dot>moe slash 4nkiqy<dot>pdf
>>97973415Just have them the same backstory. They're already in lore and apparently jsut aren't realy seen aroun the parts where order humans live
remove the nose horn on my crixxit for my donut steel minor clan deathmasteryes/no
>>97972748>picDamn no wonder some humans accept the deal of fucking witch elves in the hopes she births a girl.
>>97973415Tlw returning messed with the realms' edge and fucked up the great green, so they come back to the centre all pissed off.They'd be conpeting with ogres for the unga bunga aesthetic though.
I guess there isn't yet a pdf scan of the new DoK armybook.
>>97974587Afaik everything before sylvaneth/dok has been uploaded at some point but not those two yet.
>>97974178I love idoneth so much brosThank you alan merrett
>>97974806Too bad he didn't love them enough to give them full armours
>>97974817So close
>>97974817To be fair, hit and run raiders shouldn't be wearing heavy gear
>>97974923why not? all of their characters and cavalry are with only a few exceptions
>>97974923>elven armor>heavy>mounted knights >having mobility issues >naked melee footsloggers >but they armor the legsit's indefensible from any possible angle
>>97974995>>naked melee footsloggers>>but they armor the legsOptimized for killing manlets, like any true elf should.I don't see the issue
>>97975030>I don't see the issueI can see why you wouldn't
>>97975077>filename
>>97975077I get why namarti are bald, but how did the akhelians fall to the norwood reaper?
I've been fascinated by OBR and Lumineth both but I'm curious as to how they differ on the tabletop. Their main units looks very similar. Aside from the heavy magic and cheating that lumineth enjoys how do they go about winning? what's their respective angle?>>97975090they use the 3 seashells to shave every single hair off their bodies (EVERY hair) in order to make themselves more aqua and aerodynamic
>>97975162>they use the 3 seashells to shave every single hair off their bodies (EVERY hair) in order to make themselves more aqua and aerodynamicYou know what I choose to believe thie because I feel like it's thematically interesting that akhelians would have to artifcially change themselves (to be more like namarti) in order to actually function in the idoneth's environment, whereas it comes natural to namarti.Ties into certain idoneth (like mathaela) believing that namarti are the true forms of the idoneth, and a blessing rather than a curse.
>>97973415>return They didn't die, just went to the wild places at the edge of the realms. Id just throw a named prophet character in directing them towards something, maybe just an all souls are beast souls thing
they did one of these for gsg todayhttps://www.warhammer-community.com/en-gb/articles/zhnlrwxe/warhammer-art-through-the-years-gloomspite-gitz/kind of a meh one, but I do like picrel
>>97973639>I like bright colours personallyI'm leaning towards brighter colours right now. Maybe a more vibrant green with yellow/gold accents. I was also thinking of using yellow or a deep purple as a primary colour as well, maybe match the yellow with a darker skin tone.>you can mix a bit nowThat's good know. Haven't really followed AoS much until recently, and last I heard people were just going all in on the snakes. I got a good deal on some secondhand stuff, so I'm mainly just trying to figure out how I should build onto it.>They can revive as long as one of them is aliveSo functionally unkillable unless you're retarded at positioning or roll nothing but ones.>your model?No, just the obligatory lust provoking image. I might try my hand at doing something like that though. I could use more some practice sculpting.
Damn dead thread is AoS on life support? It's on life support in my area
>>97975335As much as I really didn't care for this book. (The horror felt eh, I would have much rather had some gitz perspectives in the gitz book. But GW DOES THIS EVERY TIME, WHY THE FUCK DO WE GET A HUMAN PROTAGONIST IN THE USHORAN BOOK) but the cover art is fucking lovely.
>>97975341Been a slow time. In my area it's been either DND or 40k in terms of pen and paper and Plastic figuries. So I guess AOS is used. Plus that Nurgle army refresh was pretty good.
>>97975389>But GW DOES THIS EVERY TIMEI've heard a lot of complaints from 40k guys that they pulled the same shit with the angron book tooushoran basicaly being a cameo in his own book was pretty fucking egregious though
>>97975341If I show up to Gamezenter on a weekend literally every table is taken and shockingly half of them are playing AOS. (I've seen some good paint jobs which has motivated me to get off my ass and work on shit) >>97975405There's this weird obsession with GW thinking "Hrm, no ones gonna be able to relate to these evil or weird characters. We surely need a human perspective on the matters" Then they do shit like infinite and the divine or all the 40k ork based books and they become instant classics and somehow still don't learn the lesson.
>>97975389at this point I'm convinced they repurpose whatever book they were already writing or har already written to feature new characters halfway through the writing kinda like how there are hentai artists who have unused half finished drawings without identifying elements that they use to produce porn of some newly announcer girl within a hour or so of her reveal
>>97975418>kinda like how there are hentai artists who have unused half finished drawings without identifying elements that they use to produce porn of some newly announcer girl within a hour or so of her revealYa know I was trying to commission some fucker recently and I drop my idea and characters reffs etc to which they go "Nah, I don't wanna do any of that. How about this?" and they just link me a half finished drawing and say they'll finish it full price. Like what the fuck are you smoking homey. I'm down to support an artist I know and like but in a first interaction you're smoking crack if you think I'm even gonna consider dropping a dime on you to do your own shit.
>>97975410I'm sure they're good blokes but the crux of it is most BL writers are just not that good, and writing from a non human perspective is pretty hard.Guys like tchaikovsky can do it, but he's like a normal sci fi author who sometimes writes warhammer (starseer's ruin, and the cool CoS ogre warhulk novella)
>>97975431>I'm sure they're good blokes but the crux of it is most BL writers are just not that goodI've been forcing myself through the Archaon trilogy so I can see it. It sucks because I've got shit like the Malus Darkblade series, Thanquol series, Gotrek and Felix, Nagash Trilogy, even Sigmar trilogy and I would really enjoy something like that for AOS but realy don't know where to go. So far I've only read Gloomspite which was eh, And listened to the Soul Wars and Slayer Audio dramas which were both VERY good. (Soul wars started a bit dry but honestly once it gets rolling I was hooked. Anytime I got to see Nagash and Arkhan shoot the shit I was lovin' it)
>>97975077>>97975080Good one
>>97975479I've heard the archaon books are awful even by BL standardsFor aos I quite enjoyed the blind king idoneth novel. Also heard good thing about godeater's son and the maesa stories.I don't read a lot of bl myself, but as long as you keep in mind that it's kind of slop they're not *too* bad
>>97975540I think I started the giant ass book back in November because I was taking a train, I'm struggling to get past the last 100 pages it's just so fucking poorly written. I genuinely liked Archaon more back when I knew less about him.
>>97975540>I genuinely liked Archaon more back when I knew less about him.many such cases
>>97975429And these 'people' wonder why normal people are happy to use AI for their art needs.
>>97975479Josh Reynolds is good. Too bad they lost him. The rest of the AoS writers are shit
>>97975687I wouldn't call any of the shmucks using AI to make art normal, I still like art done by artists don't get it twisted buddy.
>>97975687They're not people.
>>97975692Ya know part of me wonders if the supposed rework shit for next edition to the lore might be GW trying to pull a new 52 and we get a bunch of either prequels to the big event for each faction.Like what was supposed to happen back in 3rd but GW gave up halfway through.
>>97975775I very much doubt it, I think gw is downsizing and cutting corners on everything that isn't the models themselves.
>>97975892Why would they do that? Line has been going up.
>>97975903>Why would they do that?To make line go up faster, by focusing exclusively on what makes the line go up the most.
>>97975903Managers have to outperform the previous growth somehow
>>97975903much like >>97975914 said but also from Writing standpoint Mortal Realms thing is way too big for it's own good with 40k they had 30+ years of stories to fill the world And Fantasy was way more compact but still left room for /yourdudes/. AOS was just misnanaged at the begining ant it showed. So I guess I can't blame GW for bassicaly saying "ok time to cut off unnesesary fat"
gw is too scared of the power of pygmies
>>97976019post smut!
I really want to impulse buy the original OBR vanguard because the units are really neat and it will probably become exceedingly hard to find soon. The most recent one has that super badass knight character on the contrary but I know those will be easy to come by in the future.I'll wait two weeks for my next paycheck and see how I'm feeling about it.I know only a jackass would try and paint OBR troops in anything but drybrushing or contrast paints. But to add a little bit of interest and NOT look like a giant tide of Skeleton Horde can any OBR bros share their techniques?
>>97976019>30+ years of stories to fill the worldThis is such a terrible point people keep bringing up, because no matter whether you look at fantasy or 40k, or that much done with aos, the most of worldbuilding was always done in very restricted windows, with the following decades full of fucking nothing or irrelevant filler.
>>97976112I don't think Stalkers would ever be hard to get
>>97976118Yeah the bulk of "detailed" fantasy lore comes from either BL series or RPG splatbooks. The lore you got in official material was always limited and largely copy pasted across editions, it's not really that much different from how AoS operates.
